Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes." The story he relates regarding the "anti-intellectual" attitude of Harvard athletes is "undocumented." In the face of the writer's admitted ignorance on the subject, how does he reach his conclusions? Obviously, the source of Kurzman's information is "common knowledge," hardly a basis for responsible writing. Kurzman cannot judge athletes unworthy to attend Harvard on the basis of hearsay. Harvard has maintained, since the turn of the century, more intercollegiate sports than any other Division I school in the country. Despite this apparent heresy, Harvard is still regarded...
...that powerful flash is but a weak flicker. The fallout from collapsing energy prices can be seen throughout the oil patch: in empty office towers, foreclosed homes, shuttered stores and the swelling ranks of unemployed. Auctions of everything from furniture to oil-field equipment are increasingly common. Banks are saddled with sour energy loans, and state governments are strapped for funds. In Texas, for example, each $1-per-bbl. drop in oil prices means a loss of 25,000 jobs and $100 million worth of state revenues...
Another thing, considering the rate at which the Cardinals have been succeeding, it seems unlikely that jealous rivals would permit even the common crimes of college sports to go on there unreported. Throughout the Final Four, whistles were blowing all over Texas about some sin or other of the Longhorns. Crum, 49, who eventually rejected an offer to return to UCLA, is three seasons into a ten-year agreement calling for a $1 million bonus if he completes the contract unencumbered by N.C.A.A. probation...
...please the Chamber of Commerce in Seattle, where the film was shot). A cashiered cop named Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent...
Fanny had a modicum of common sense. "I will entreat you to hurry our wedding day," she wrote. But when her family finally approved the match, Kingsley had a new idea. "I wish to shew you & my God that I have gained purity & self-control . . . and therefore when we are married, will you consent to remain for the first month in my arms a virgin bride, a sister only?" Well, somehow they managed to conceive four children and live together in Victorian happiness for more than 30 years...